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unusual facts about Commodity


Rich Nye

Upon retiring, Rich initially used his civil engineering degree, working for a time on what was to become Willis Tower and became a commodities trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.


ACGA

American Corn Growers Association, a non-profit commodity and advocacy organization

Ahmad-Jabir Ahmadov Ismail oghlu

In June 2001 by the decision of the Academic Board of the "Azerbaijan State Economic University" he was awarded the academic degree of the professor of the department “Commodity research of Foodstuffs”.

Animal husbandry in India

In the early 1990s, the program was in its third phase and was receiving financial assistance from the World Bank and commodity assistance from the European Economic Community.

Aspect Enterprise Solutions

AspectCTRM is a multi-commodity trading and risk management Software as a service (Saas) application delivered in the Cloud and includes physical operations to give end-to-end processing for oil trading firms.

Australia's First Families of Wine

Some industry commentators lay the blame for this negative opinion on the giant, publicly listed multinational corporations, such as Constellation Wines and Foster's, which have dominated the industry for years and concentrated on the cheap commodity end of the market rather than building the reputation of Australia's finer, regionally distinctive wines.

Benchmark

Benchmark price, a point of reference for setting the price of a commodity

Black No More

He targets both the KKK and NAACP in condemning the ways in which race functions as both an obsession and a commodity in early twentieth-century America.

Commodity Broking Services

Originally set up in the outback town of Warren, New South Wales, the purpose was to aid and educate Australian farmers suffering from drought with some financial stability in commodity trading and product protection.

Commodity market

George Gero, precious metals commodities expert at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Wealth Management section reported that he had not seen selling of gold bullion as panicked as this in his forty years in commodity markets.

Because they do not invest in securities, commodity ETFs are not regulated as investment companies under the Investment Company Act of 1940 in the United States, although their public offering is subject to SEC review and they need an SEC no-action letter under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Cyclical industrial dynamics

The research by John Sterman finds that the so-called commodity cycles arise in many commodity markets.

Data Transmission Network

Various members of DTN’s editorial staff are regular contributors to commodity-related news stories by a variety of media outlets, including the Associated Press, Dow Jones “MarketWatch” and the Wall Street Journal.

Diethylaminosulfur trifluoride

The Organic Syntheses protocol calls for trichlorofluoromethane as a solvent, a compound that has been banned under the Montreal Protocol and is no longer available as a commodity chemical.

Economics of coffee

Coffee is also bought and sold as a commodity on the New York Board of Trade.

English Dresden

As luck would have it, within a year of expressing this desire the American Civil War stopped supplies of cotton from the southern states, and the commodity soared in value; hence the merchant was suddenly able to raise the money to buy the English Dresden

Hindustan Copper

Capacity - 31,000 tpa copper cathode(the smelter and acid plant at KCC are under shutdown since late 2008 due to the slump in global commodity prices witnessed in 2008 and old machinery.Currently, only refinery for production of copper concentrate is working in addition to associated mines.)

Imbabura Volcano

Cattle are also an important commodity, and much of the land on and around Imbabura, especially the high-altitude meadows above the tree line, is used for grazing.

Larry R. Williams

Williams has created numerous market indicators including Williams %R, Ultimate Oscillator, COT indices, accumulation/distribution indicators, cycle forecasts, market sentiment and value measurements for commodity prices.

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive

In March 2012, MEP Markus Ferber suggested amendments to the European Commission's proposals, intended to strengthen restrictions on high-frequency trading and commodity price manipulation.

Meissen porcelain

The Chinese had mastered the production of porcelain long before the west became aware of it, and by the seventeenth century oriental porcelain had become a valuable export commodity in the China trade.

MF Global

MF Global's former parent, then known as ED&F Man, diversified from pure cash commodities into commodity futures in the late 1970s, and established the Anderson Man futures brokerage in 1981.

MF Global traces its roots to the sugar trading business started by James Man in England in 1783, which evolved into broader commodities trading before its later transformation into a financial services business during the 1980s focused on commodity futures trading.

Minya, Egypt

With the break of the American Civil War in 1861, Egyptian cotton became an expensive commodity that was in high demand.

Nolan Watson

With six metal stream deals completed and the first revenue from Sandstorm Gold in his sights, Watson saw an opportunity to apply the metal streaming business model to the base metal, bulk commodity and energy sectors and Sandstorm Metals & Energy was born.

NSEL scam

The NSEL scam is a systematic and premeditated fraud perpetrated in the commodity market by National Spot Exchange Ltd based in Mumbai, India.

Peter Jaeckel

Previously, he was Global Head of Credit, Hybrid, Inflation, and Commodity Derivative Analytics at ABN Amro, and also held positions at Nikko Securities, NatWest (Royal Bank of Scotland group), and Commerzbank Securities' product development group.

Powdered milk

As a result of the product recall, the New Zealand dollar slipped significantly based on expected losses in sales from this single commodity.

Productive and unproductive labour

In competitive economies, i.e. in economies without "rents" because of monopolies, the value of a commodity is determined by the amount of embodied labour: direct labour and "dated" labour, indicating the difficulties of production plus interest for past labour.

Ravi Kumar

P. H. Ravikumar (born 1951), Managing Director and the Chief Executive Officer of the National Commodity and Derivates Exchange Limited

Rich Nye

Using his abilities in commodity trading to earn the money for starting his own practice, Nye and two other exotic animal veterinarians founded Midwest Bird and Exotic Animal Hospital in Westchester, Illinois in 1985, which was the first exotic-only specialist practice in the United States.

Roger Gray

Gray was a consultant for such policy and regulatory bodies as the Chicago Board of Trade, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as well as an expert witness in a number of famous manipulation and tax cases.

Rudolf Wolff

The London Metal Exchange - a commodity market (Woodhead-Faulkner Ltd. in association with Metallgesellschaft AG, 1st Edition 1976) ISBN 0-85941-042-0

Russell Wasendorf

(born 1948) is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Peregrine Financial Group, also known as PFGBEST, a futures commission merchant (commonly known as a "Commodity Broker") that filed for bankruptcy protection in Chicago in July 2012.

SCADA

Data may also be fed to a Historian, often built on a commodity Database Management System, to allow trending and other analytical auditing.

Seiki Shimizu

He was awarded the Blue Ribbon Medal by the Japanese Emperor Hirohito in 1984 for his contributions to the Japanese commodity futures industry.

South Crofty

The previous owner of the mine, Baseresult Holdings Ltd. was the majority shareholder of the new company alongside Casserite LP, an investment vehicle acting for Galena Asset Management, a subsidiary of commodity trading company Trafigura.

South Jersey Industries

SJRG provides natural gas commodity, storage, and wholesale and transportation services to more than 83 customers throughout the southern, eastern and mid-western portions of the country, including Fortune 500 companies, energy marketers, natural gas and electric utilities and natural gas producers.

Trading nation

Fossil fuel exporters, such the OPEC countries, are an important and influential, sub-set of the commodity exporters group.

Trouvadore

However, governors in Cuba often turned a blind eye to the trade, as they believed slave labour was integral to the profitability of the sugar plantations producing their most important commodity crop.

Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services

The Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 upgraded the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs to Under Secretary.

Veil of money

In the 20th century the veil of money is used to describe questions of stability and the exchangeability of money for interest or commodity in a macro-economic model.

Werner Rey

Through his companies, Werner Rey held controlling participations in the Metallwerke Selve AG in Thun, the commodity inspection company Inspectorate International, the holding company Omni Holding AG, the Swiss media conglomerate Jean Frey AG, the temporary employment agency Adia Interim (today part of Adecco), and a substantial 30 percent of the established Sulzer group, among others.

ZyWeb

All this ran on a large collection of commodity servers which grew rapidly as the userbase expanded and came to include specialist hardware such as a NetApp filer.


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